In 1598, a traveler from Dutch, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten noted his adventures in India and mentioned a special brewed drink Indians prepared by boiling tea leaves, garlic, oil and served as healthy drink. These leaves are grown in the wildest forest of Assam. While Indians were less aware of the change coming to this green wild jungle, Joseph Banks reported to East India Company in 1788 that the climate in North East India was ideal and most favorable for tea growing but he suggested to transplant the tea bushes from China but missed to mention the fact that those plants were native to Bengal. Unfortunately his idea was ignored.
